NFL going green?

According to a photo story in National Geographic’s Daily News, three National Football League clubs are showing off new green energy installations this season.

The Washington Redskins FedEx Feild boasts 8,000 new solar panels, plus a towering “solar man” ready to toss a football, while the Seahawks will show off its new 3,750-panel array on the roof of CenturyLink Field next week, according to the story.

Efforts to make Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field energy self-sufficient have begun, but won’t be finished by the start of this season, said a team spokesman.

Don’t be surprised that the league is going green, says David Krichavsky, community affairs director. “The NFL is in many ways a copycat league,” said Krichavsky. “When a team has great success on the field using a particular offensive or defensive strategy, it is common for other teams to start using that strategy. The same is true off the field.”